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Sylvia Syms
Highest Rated: 100% Victim (1961)
Lowest Rated: 33% The World of Suzie Wong (1960)
Birthday: Jan 6, 1934
Birthplace: Woolwich, London, England, UK
Blonde, blue-eyed actress who began her career playing teenage roles, notably in "Teenage Bad Girl/My Teenage Daughter" (1956), opposite Anna Neagle as her mother. She is perhaps best remembered as the obligatory romantic lead in the controversial "Victim" (1961), where she plays the wife of a distinguished lawyer (Dirk Bogarde) coming to terms with his homosexuality when a former lover is blackmailed. Syms continued playing leading roles in primarily British films through the early 1970s and later took on character parts in such films as "The Tamarind Seed" (1974) and "Shirley Valentine" (1989). Not to be confused with Brooklyn-born cabaret singer Sylvia Sims (1918-1992). Mother of actress Beatie Edney. Sylvia Syms died on January 27, 2023 in London, Northwood, United Kingdom at the age of 89.
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Filmography
Movies
| Credit | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Together | Rosemary (Character) | - | 2018 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Booked Out | Mrs. Nicholls (Character) | - | 2012 |
| 66% | 55% | Is Anybody There? | Lilian (Character) | $2.0M | 2008 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Marple: Murder Is Easy | Lavinia Pinkerton (Character) | - | 2008 |
| 97% | 76% | The Queen | HM The Queen Mother (Character) | $56.4M | 2006 |
| No Score Yet | 44% | Child of Mine | Unknown (Character) | - | 2005 |
| 45% | 35% | I'll Sleep When I'm Dead | Mrs. Barz (Character) | $358.8K | 2003 |
| 36% | 62% | What a Girl Wants | Princess Charlotte (Character) | $36.0M | 2003 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Neville's Island | Mrs. Campness (Character) | - | 1998 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The House Of Angelo | Alice Angelo (Character) | - | 1997 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Food of Love | Mrs. Harvey Brown (Character) | - | 1997 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | House of Angelo | Alice Angelo (Character) | - | 1997 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Original Sin | Unknown (Character) | - | 1996 |
| No Score Yet | 25% | Dirty Weekend | Mrs. Crosby (Character) | - | 1993 |
| 72% | 86% | Shirley Valentine | Headmistress (Character) | $4.7M | 1989 |
| No Score Yet | 30% | A Chorus of Disapproval | Rebecca Huntley-Pike (Character) | - | 1989 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | A Sleeping Life | Lilian Crown (Character) | - | 1988 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Intimate Contact | Annie Stanhope (Character) | - | 1987 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | There Goes the Bride | Ursula Westerby (Character) | - | 1980 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Give Us Tomorrow | Wendy Hammond (Character) | - | 1979 |
| No Score Yet | 75% | The Tamarind Seed | Margaret Stephenson (Character) | - | 1974 |
| 67% | 50% | Asylum | Ruth (Character) | - | 1972 |
| No Score Yet | 86% | Run Wild, Run Free | Mrs. Ransome (Character) | - | 1969 |
| No Score Yet | 27% | The Desperados | Laura Galt (Character) | - | 1969 |
| No Score Yet | 22% | Hostile Witness | Sheila Larkin (Character) | - | 1968 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Fiction-Makers |
Joyce Darling/ |
- | 1967 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Danger Route | Barbara Canning (Character) | - | 1967 |
| 75% | 54% | Operation Crossbow | Constance Babington Smith (Character) | - | 1965 |
| No Score Yet | 37% | The Big Job | Myrtle Robbins (Character) | - | 1965 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | East of Sudan | Miss Woodville (Character) | - | 1964 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Amazons of Rome | Clelia (Character) | - | 1963 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The World Ten Times Over | Billa (Character) | - | 1963 |
| No Score Yet | 67% | The Quare Fellow | Kathleen (Character) | - | 1962 |
| No Score Yet | 45% | The Punch and Judy Man | Delia Pinner (Character) | - | 1962 |
| 100% | 87% | Victim | Laura (Character) | - | 1961 |
| No Score Yet | 50% | Flame in the Streets | Kathie Palmer (Character) | - | 1961 |
| 33% | 68% | The World of Suzie Wong | Kay O'Neill (Character) | - | 1960 |
| 71% | 75% | Conspiracy of Hearts | Sister Mitya (Character) | - | 1960 |
| No Score Yet | 0% | Ferry to Hong Kong | Liz Ferrers (Character) | - | 1959 |
| 40% | 42% | Expresso Bongo | Maisie King (Character) | - | 1959 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | No Trees in the Street | Hetty (Character) | - | 1959 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Bad Girl | Janet Carr (Character) | - | 1959 |
| No Score Yet | 93% | Ice Cold in Alex |
Sister Murdoch/ |
- | 1958 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Bachelor of Hearts | Ann Wainwright (Character) | - | 1958 |
| No Score Yet | 43% | The Moonraker | Ann Wyndham (Character) | - | 1958 |
| 79% | 92% | Woman in a Dressing Gown | Georgie Harlow (Character) | - | 1957 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Birthday Present | Jean Scott (Character) | - | 1957 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | No Time for Tears | Nurse Margaret Collier (Character) | - | 1957 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | My Teen-age Daughter | Janet Carr (Character) | - | 1956 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Teen-age Bad Girl | Janet Carr (Character) | - | 1956 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | It Happens Every Thursday | Woman (Character) | - | 1953 |
TV
| Credit | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Talking Pictures |
Host, Narrator |
2013-2015 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Playhouse Presents | Unknown (Character) | 2014 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Poseidon Adventure | Belle Rosen (Character) | 2005 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Holby City | Margaret Larkin (Character) | 2002 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Mystery! | Unknown (Character) | 1997 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Ghosts | Mrs. Eversley (Character) | 1995 |
| 68% | 79% | Doctor Who |
Mrs. Pritchard (Character), Unknown (Guest Star) |
1989 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | El Santo | Anne Yearley (Guest Star) | 1964 1968 |